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If I am citing an online version of a sacred text and each chapter is on a separate web page, must each web page be listed in the works-cited list?

If a book has a copyright date but no publication date, should I use the copyright date as the publication date in my works-cited-list entry?

How do I cite a scene deleted from a play?

I am writing a paper in English. I have used the French edition of a book originally published in Dutch. Do I need to include both the French and Dutch editions in my works-cited list?

If a book title within an essay title is not italicized in the source, should I italicize it in my works-cited-list entry?

Should I italicize titles not written in the Latin alphabet?

How do I style geographic terms such as north and south in MLA style?

When is a comma used before et al. in MLA style?

How do you cite speech bubbles from a graphic narrative or comic book?

If I want to include a DOI for a book chapter in my works-cited-list entry, where should I insert it?

Should shortened generic forms of proper nouns be capitalized?

If the name of the publisher is the same as the name of a book, do I list the publisher’s name?

When a source consists of only one page, such as a newspaper article, should I give the page number in my in-text citation?

Can I create a works-cited-list entry for an essay, poem, or story in a collection by one author?

How do I cite two versions of a poem from the same anthology?